Historical Fiction
Historical fiction makes the past come alive. Instead of memorizing boring dates or dry facts, you are there, experiencing the times, wearing the clothing, and observing the customs of a past culture.
The Abduction by Mette Newth
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Black Jack by Leon Garfield
Breath by Donna Jo Napoli
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian
The Game of Silence by Louise Erdrich
Gentlehands by M. E. Kerr
Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris
Girl in Blue by Ann Rinaldi
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson Mccullers
In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Jubilee by Margaret Walker
Kit’s Law by Donna Morrissey
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
Lonesome Dove by Larry Mcmurtry
A Long Way from Chicago: a Novel in Stories by Richard Peck
Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
The Man from the Other Side by Uri Orlev
Mary, Bloody Mary: a Young Royals Book by Carolyn Meyer
The Minister’s Daughter by Julie Hearn
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln & Christopher Collier
No Promises in the Wind by Irene Hunt
No Shame, No Fear by Ann Turnbull
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Postcards from No Man’s Land by Aidan Chambers
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
The River Between Us by Richard Peck
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
The Samurai’s Tale by Erik C. Haugaard
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Smith by Leon Garfield
So Far from the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
Stop the Train by Geraldine Mccaughrean
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
Taking Liberty: the Story of Oney Judge, George Washington’s Runaway Slave by Ann Rinaldi
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
True Grit by Charles Portis
Under the Blood-Red Sun by Graham Salisbury
The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Wild Life by Molly Gloss
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Zazoo by Richard Mosher
